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Amazon has unveiled its latest warehouse robot that can take commands in conversational language, underscoring how AI-powered automation is advancing as companies continue to slash their corporate workforce in AI-driven efficiencies. The tech giant's next-generation Proteus is an

The Food and Drug Administration this week posted what critics call an “underwhelming” epilogue to the devastating outbreak of botulism in babies, which was linked to spore-contaminated formula made by ByHeart. Despite clear tracking of the contamination, the regulator still does

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After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the board after Microsoft bought his company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016. Hoffman was on Microsoft’s board when it invested its first $1 billi

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Friday warned that a combination of rising interest rates, elevated oil prices, and a wave of new stock offerings could continue to pressure the market in the week ahead. "You're looking at a market that's hostage to interest rates and high oil, coupled with

Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders. This has led to another universal experience: the VC pitching horror story. A massive conversation sharing such stories has taken place all week on X, with the comments both funny and infuriating. W

Marvell Technology, a chipmaker that makes several different parts and products needed for the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, is joining the S&P 500 on June 22, becoming the latest semiconductor company to be added to the benchmark. Flex, a contract manufacturer for

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible government stake in the artificial intelligence company, CNBC confirmed on Friday. The discussions have been in progress for more than a year, as Altman first shared the idea with the Trump administra

Days before a planned IPO that's expected to raise record sums of cash, SpaceX has inked a deal with Google that will bring in $920 million a month by providing AI compute capacity to the search giant. According to a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will use about 110,000 Nvid

Operating system makers take many steps to prevent their wares from accepting commands from remote devices. The safeguards, designed to thwart malicious attacks, typically require hackers to jump through all kinds of hoops to bypass the measures. But what if remote code execution

A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches. In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of threat intell

Anthropic's Mythos model offered a much-needed lifeline to cybersecurity firms in the age of artificial intelligence. Yet, this week's cybersecurity earnings offered a brutal reminder that even with tailwinds, sometimes good just isn't good enough as shares of CrowdStrike and Pal

Meta shares dropped more than 5% on Friday after the Financial Times reported that the company could potentially raise tens of billions of dollars in a stock offering to fund its artificial intelligence investments. The social media company is pondering the potential stock sale,

A month ago, Alphabet briefly surpassed Nvidia by market cap. The stock has since been on a downward slide, and just wrapped its fourth straight weekly drop, the longest losing streak in more than a year. That's the market mood Alphabet faces as it pursues $85 billion in fresh ca

Founders, your window to enter Startup Battlefield 200 closes in just three short days. Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Do not wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this O

Off the Wire Press Releases Shared high performance computing resources enable work across disciplines and create new opportunities for students and faculty COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 5, 2026 — At Wright State University, a public university in Dayton, Ohio, faculty and students are us

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different—and typically smaller—reactor designs, only one of them has been fu

Off the Wire Press Releases June 5, 2026 — Boston University has joined a major National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded effort that’s using artificial intelligence (AI) to unlock new discoveries in physics—potentially bringing fresh insights to research topics that span nature’s

Five of the seven crew members on the International Space Station briefly sought refuge inside a SpaceX return capsule Friday morning as two Russian cosmonauts worked on an air leak on the other end of the complex. NASA ordered US astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French

SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday. Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to

SpaceX has requested unusually swift entry into several leading stock market indexes as a condition of its historic stock market debut. But the S&P 500 stock market index representing many of the largest profitable US companies has surprised market analysts by refusing to bend th

A new spending discipline is taking hold inside corporate America, as chief financial officers and boards start cracking down on inefficient artificial intelligence spending. The change has the potential to reshape the AI trade. For the past two years, the playbook has been to de

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has now pushed the developer to cut the project plans in half before construction sta